| Summary: | Progress Code: completed Maps of East Antarctic landfast sea-ice extent, generated from approx. 250,000 1 km visible/thermal infrared cloud-free MODIS composite imagery (augmented with AMSR-E 6.25-km sea-ice concentration composite imagery when required). Because of imperfections in the MODIS composite images (typically caused by inaccurate cloud masking, persistent cloud in a given region, and/or a highly dynamic fast-ice edge), automation of the fast-ice extent retrieval process was not possible. Each image was thus classified manually. A study of errors/biases of this process revealed that most images were able to be classified with a 2-sigma accuracy of +/- ~3%. More details are provided in Fraser et al., (2010). *Version 1.2 with extra QC around the Mawson coast and Lutzow-Holm Bay The directory named "pngs" contains browsable maps of fast-ice extent, in the form of Portable Network Graphics (PNG) images. Each of the 159 consecutive images (20-day intervals from Day Of Year (DOY) 61-80, 2000 to DOY 341-366, 2008) contains a map of fast-ice extent along the East Antarctic coast, generated from MODIS and AMSR-E imagery. The colour scale is as follows: Dark blue: Fast ice, as classified from a single 20-day MODIS composite image Red: Fast ice, as classified using the previous or next 20-day MODIS composite images Yellow: Fast ice, as classified using a single 20-day AMSR-E composite image White: Antarctic continent (including ice shelves), as defined using the Mosaic of Antarctica product. Light blue: Southern ocean/pack ice/icebergs These maps are also provided as unformatted binary fast ice images, in the directory named "imgs". These .img files are all flat binary images of dimension 4300 * 425 pixels. The data type is 8-bit byte. Within the .img files, the value for each pixel indicates its cover: 0: Southern Ocean, pack ice or icebergs, corresponding to light blue in the PNG files. 1: Antarctic continent (including ice shelves), as defined using the Mosaic of Antarctica product, corresponding to white ...
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